Chandigarh: Come Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana will have a new official address as it relocates its state headquarters from Mangal Kamal complex in Rohtak to Panch Kamal complex in Panchkula. The move is timed to coincide with BJP’s foundation day celebrations.
The shift, announced by Haryana BJP general secretary Surender Poonia, marks a significant transition for the party’s administrative hub in the state, with a ceremonial inauguration involving a hawan-pujan ceremony.
Poonia told media persons Saturday that the new Panch Kamal complex in Panchkula will officially become the party’s state headquarters on 6 April.
The event will see the presence of prominent leaders, including Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, state BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli, and other senior party leaders. “From this day on, all state-level administrative activities of the party will operate from Panch Kamal,” Poonia said.
The decision to move the headquarters to Panchkula, located near the state capital Chandigarh, comes after decades of Rohtak serving as the party’s political nerve center in Haryana. Poonia highlighted that the shift reflects the party’s evolving organizational strategy.
“After the demise of Dr Mangal Sen, the state office was established in Rohtak. Now, the organization has decided to designate the Panch Kamal office in Panchkula as the new state headquarters,” he added.
A veteran leader of the BJP in Haryana, Sen died in 1990. He served as deputy chief minister to Devi Lal from 1977 to 1979. Sen was a member of Haryana Assembly in the Jana Sangh era.
The roots of BJP’s presence in Rohtak go back to the party’s early days in Haryana, as explained by Jagdish Chopra, a senior BJP leader from Sirsa and political adviser to then-CM Manohar Lal Khattar from 2014 to 2019.
“During the old times, in the 70s and 80s, the BJP in Haryana was synonymous with its seniormost leader Dr Mangal Sen. Dr. Sen’s own office, a small room in the middle of the stairs between the ground floor and the first floor of a small shop near Bhiwani stand, doubled as the party’s Rohtak office and the state office,” Chopra (75) told ThePrint.
The party, he added, “lacked funds to afford a bigger space back then”.
Chopra further elaborated that as BJP grew, the office was later moved to a slightly larger space in a commercial complex in Rohtak, not far from the old office. But it was only after 2019, when the party embarked on a nationwide initiative to build modern offices, that a more substantial setup was established at 30, HUDA Complex, in Rohtak. Named Mangal Kamal in honor of Dr Mangal Sen, this office served as the state headquarters for just two years before the latest decision to relocate to Panchkula.
“The new office in Panchkula, Panch Kamal, was originally built for the district unit, but it’s now being repurposed as the state headquarters,” Chopra pointed out.
The relocation to Panchkula is seen as a strategic move, given its proximity to Chandigarh’s administrative and political corridors, enhancing coordination between the party and the state government.
At the same time, the party is taking measures to ensure that the Mangal Kamal office in Rohtak does not fade into obscurity.
Sources in the Haryana BJP indicate that it will continue to house offices of senior leaders and may even serve as a training centre for workers.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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